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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Shangas, post: 11157473, member: 360&quot;]Everybody knows that part of being a responsible and loving pet-owner, is taking your fish for its daily walk. </p><p><br /></p><p>The style of painting looks Japanese. I reckon it&#039;s a little girl. The pull-along toy would suggest to me, late 1800s or early 1900s. Japan didn&#039;t really start opening up to the West until the 1850s/60s, around the time of the Meiji Restoration, so I&#039;d say this piece was created after that time. I don&#039;t know a huge amount about Japanese history (China is more my thing) but I&#039;d hazard a guess that toys like this didn&#039;t exist in Japan before Western influence. </p><p><br /></p><p>Even then, that influence would&#039;ve taken some time to permeate society, so I&#039;d reckon the very late 1800s (1890s-say) through to the first decade or two of the 20th century.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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